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Top 50 Indies share best practice at annual forecourt seminar
Top 50 indies Patrick Sewell of Sewell Retail and Jeremy Clarke of Motor Fuel Group shared their philosophies on running a petrol retail business at the annual Forecourt Seminar organised by the Association of Convenience Stores and Petrol Retailers Association. Record numbers attended the event at the King Tower Stadium ...
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PSD Codax helps Australian forecourts
UK-based PSD Codax is helping BP in Australia take control of its car wash revenue. BP is integrating Codax Code Generator technology with its pos system to improve sales data reporting and security at sites across Australia. The system has been rolled out in conjunction with car wash equipment from ...
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Simon Smith sells award-winning site
Top 50 Indie, Simon Smith Retail, has sold its award-winning Barnwood Budgens site in Gloucester. The company received “an offer they couldn’t refuse” from BP/M&S Simply Food, director Susie Hawkins told Forecourt Trader. “It was a good deal for us and a good deal for them,” she said. The site ...
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Industry experts join Universe Group
Following its recent acquisition of Indigo Retail, Universe Group (parent company of HTEC) has appointed a number of experienced people within the industry to assist with the integration of Indigo’s software solutions within the HTEC range. The combined business aims to deliver an “innovative market-leading offer that provides outstanding products ...
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Maxol welcomes investment to tackle fuel laundering
Brian Donaldson, chief operating officer of The Maxol Group, has welcomed the announcement that an additional £1.5m will be spent on new surveillance equipment and additional staff as part of a heightened offensive against criminals involved in fuel laundering in Northern Ireland. He said: ”Maxol has always been committed to ...
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Sewell Retail signs up to Payment Watch
Top 50 Indie Sewell Retail has joined the British Oil Security Syndicate’s (BOSS’s) Payment Watch scheme. All 12 of the company’s sites are now part of the ‘no means of payment’ debt recovery scheme. Kevin Eastwood, executive director at BOSS, commented: “We’re very pleased to have the opportunity to extend ...
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Forecourt could face £30,000 fine for using illegal workers
Three illegal workers from Sri Lanka have been arrested following a raid on a BP forecourt in Sittingbourne, Kent. Acting on intelligence, officers visited the site last Friday night, where they questioned staff to check if they had the right to be in the UK. They arrested two men at the garage and one at an address nearby, which is used for staff accommodation. All three were found to be working in breach of their visa conditions. The men were transferred to immigration detention pending their removal from the UK. The forecourt was served a notice warning that a civil penalty of up to £10,000 per illegal worker will be imposed unless proof is provided that the correct right-to-work checks were carried out. This means a potential fine of up to £30,000. Louise Whiteoak, head of the Home Office immigration enforcement team in Kent and Sussex, said: “Our enforcement teams carry out operations like this almost every day in Kent and those arrested for immigration offences face being detained until they are removed. They also face a ban from returning to the UK. If you are a business you must carry out the correct checks on your staff or you could end up with a heavy fine.”
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Topaz scores in Europe again!
Topaz scores in Europe again! Irish firm Topaz has been recognised as one of the Best Large Workplaces in Europe for the second time in three years.
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Asda withdraws petrol station plan
Asda has withdrawn plans to build a new petrol station at its Highbridge store in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset after objections over safety issues.
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New call for drivers to check engine oil regularly
A survey of 1,000 UK drivers, conducted on behalf of Mobil 1, has revealed that one in five (19.4%) admitted they were only prompted to check their engine oil when an instrument panel warning sign was activated. And, when it eventually comes to checking oil levels, over half of those questioned (51.6%) said that they leave it to others to do, for example a forecourt attendant, relative or friend.
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"Incredible" rampage on forecourt
A man’s drunken rampage in a Halifax BP forecourt store was described as “incredible” and “absolutely amazing” by a shocked magistrate.
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Pay-by-smartphone fuel solution
MiFuel, a solution that lets drivers pay for fuel using their mobile phones, is now available from Micros Systems.
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Traffic volumes stable in 2012
Overall traffic volumes in the UK last year were broadly similar to 2011 and 2010, according to new figures released by the Department for Transport (DfT), at 302.6 billion vehicle miles. Traffic volumes for cars and light goods vehicles (LGVs) were broadly similar when compared to 2011, while heavy goods ...
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Costco voted North America’s favourite petrol station
Costco is where North American consumers prefer to fill their fuel tanks, according to a study by US customer intelligence company Market Force Information. Traditional petrol stations lost out to wholesale clubs, with Sam’s Club coming in second among more than 7,600 consumers across the US and Canada. QuikTrip, Wawa ...
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Forecourts vying for international c-store award
Forecourt stores from England, Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic are all vying in a competition to be crowned International Convenience Retailer of the Year 2013. The awards are organised by Insight Research in the UK and NACS (National Association of Convenience Stores) in the US, and the first stage ...
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US Supreme Court rejects biofuel challenge
An attempt to block the sale of E15 blended petrol in the US has been quashed by the Supreme Court. The court rejected a challenge by the American Petroleum Institute (API), food producers and restaurants, which contended that the blend could harm cars and motorcycles built before 2001, and push ...
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FTA welcomes road building commitment
The Freight Transport Association has welcomed the government’s announcement that all the major projects in the Highways Agency pipeline for the Strategic Road Network are to be delivered. The FTA’s submission to the Treasury on the Spending Review called for it to ensure that infrastructure was protected, and emphasised the ...
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Cigarette smuggling ring smashed
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has smashed a £26m cigarette smuggling operation based in Yorkshire. The plot, which flooded the north of England with more than 150 million cigarettes and two tonnes of low quality tobacco, was masterminded by Doncaster men Daniel Harty and Billy-Jo Wall, who were sentenced to ...
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Road deaths at record low
The number of people killed in road accidents last year fell to the lowest figure since records began in 1926, according to the Department for Transport (DfT). Deaths decreased to 1,754 in 2012 from 1,901 in 2011 (a fall of 8%), and the number of people seriously injured was down ...
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Spanish forecourt workers to strike
Strikes by petrol station workers in Spain are being planned for next month, according to English language news website Thinkspain. It reports that negotiations between unions and industry bosses are deadlocked over issues such as the safety of service-station workers – particularly those on night shifts – failure to recognise ...